Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 75

Name:

 CITY OF BALTIMORE

Year:

 1855

Description:

 Passenger Ship

Webpage:

 Webpage

Picture:

 

Tonnage:

 2,277

Length:

 325.4

Width:

 38.1

H.P.:

 500 n.h.p. : 10 knots

Type:

 Iron, two horizontal trunk engines, three masts one funnel

Customer:

 Inman

Fate:

 Scrapped 1886

Points of Note:

 Her day's run of 390 miles became a record.

Date of Launch:

 20th January 1855

Notes:

          The Inman Line put the City of Baltimore and City of Washington on service, after some delay owing to French transport service. They were of the usual Inman type, with a gross tonnage of about 2,470 and engines of 500 n.h.p.

 

          Although she never actually won the Blue Riband the City of Baltimore was a very fast ship, her day's run of 390 miles being a record, but the City of Washington being remembered chiefly for her extraordinary and continued bad luck.

 

          In 1878 the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company determined to run a fleet of transatlantic steamers. It became known as the "Johnston Line", all of whose ships' names ended with "..more". The Inman steamers City of Baltimore and City of Antwerp were purchased and renamed Baltimore and Thanemore.

[A Century of Atlantic Travel, FG Bowen]

 

          Sold to the Hall Line in 1874 and renamed Fivaller. Resold in 1882 to Spanish owners, who changed her name to Benicarlo, and continued to run in their service until 1892.

[Trans-Atlantic Passenger Ships, Eugene W.Smith]